{"id":1815,"date":"2009-04-21T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box2067.temp.domains\/~atinytri\/trichy\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T17:08:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T17:08:54","slug":"trichy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atinytrip.com\/trichy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trichy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With hefty ambitions for the next day, we decided to splurge on a car with driver for the first leg of our journey, down from the mountains in Munnar crossing the Western Ghats, to Dindugal in Tamil Nadu, 4 hours of beautiful, yet small and windy roads. From there it was a painless bus to get to Trichy (Tiruchirappalli) to see some classic south Indian temples. After a fabulous banana leaf thali, we headed to the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, which has seven gates that are beautifully adorned with sculpture and definitely overshadow the actual temple. Really cool: <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Trichy,+Tamil+Nadu,+India&amp;sll=28.678102,59.373405&amp;sspn=66.740652,152.402344&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=10.862557,78.690004&amp;spn=0.012644,0.012875&amp;t=k&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=embed&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Trichy,+Tamil+Nadu,+India&amp;sll=28.678102,59.373405&amp;sspn=66.740652,152.402344&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=10.862557,78.690004&amp;spn=0.012644,0.012875&amp;t=k&amp;z=15\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><br \/>Trichy was super dusty and super hot, but we made one more stop at the Rock Fort temple. It was literally a huge rock with a small temple built on top, so about 500 steps later we were at the top and could see Trichy from above.<br \/>If the morning was easy, getting out of Trichy proved to be a difficult task, but we finally made it on to an express bus to Villuparum where we changed to one more bus for our final destination of the day, Pondicherry. <br \/>Almost all of the (budget) accommodation in Pondicherry is associated with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and therefore have a 22:30 curfew which was a tad problematic with our 23:00 arrival. Luckily, one overpriced dumpy location was willing to take us in after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With hefty ambitions for the next day, we decided to splurge on a car with driver for the first leg of our journey, down from the mountains in Munnar crossing the Western Ghats, to Dindugal in Tamil Nadu, 4 hours of beautiful, yet small and windy roads. 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